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#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Software World Models: From Consequence Prediction to Decision Value

A coding agent may safely modify one repository while silently breaking downstream services, libraries, or datastores that depend on it. Exhaustively running integration tests after every agent action is impractical, so the agent must predict these failures before executing them. Existing software world models predict...

Tong-Li Su, Yun-Tong Hu, Liang Zhao et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Complex Agents, Shallow Tests: Demystifying and Enhancing Test Adequacy of Agent Harness in the Wild

This work conducts the first empirical study to systematically investigate the test adequacy of harness in real-world agentic systems and proposes HarnessTester, the first harness-oriented test generation technique that incorporates explicit agent-harness contract support to construct contract-faithful test setups and...

Yi-Fan Xiong, Jing-Yi Ge, Zhen-Peng Chen et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

TeleTune: Evolving Agent Skills From Offline Telemetry

Computer-use agents need to capture procedural knowledge of how people use software. User telemetry offers a scalable source of this knowledge. However, learning reusable skills from these logs requires addressing three challenges: (1) Goal Underspecification, since logs do not record the goal behind each action; (2) N...

J. Chen, Elias Stengel-Eskin, Yan Chen et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

How corner is a corner case? Percentile control for highway scenario generation

Generating corner-case scenarios with appropriate adversity in a simulation environment is critical for testing an autonomous vehicle (AV) software stack's safety performance before deployment. Existing autonomous-driving scenario generators can enforce specific behavior, adversity, or feasibility conditions, but they...

Jia-Xi Liu, Hang Zhou, Hang-Yu Li et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

MemTrace: State-Consistent Memory for Long-Horizon Coding Agents

As coding agents take on long-horizon software evolution tasks spanning multiple files and stages, longer execution trajectories introduce two coupled challenges: (1) accumulated histories strain context budgets, and (2) repository changes can invalidate earlier execution evidence. Existing approaches address these cha...

Hong-Ming Xu, Le Zhou, Zhong-He Jin et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Recursive Improvement of a Differentiable Scientific Software Ecosystem

Differentiable programming connects scientific computation with gradient-based inference, learning and design. Extending these capabilities across a heterogeneous software ecosystem requires specialized effort to implement derivatives, integrate interfaces and evaluate quality. AI coding agents can accelerate this tran...

Peng-Cheng Hou, Xiao-Jun Tan, Si-Han Hu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Review Oct 2026

AgentPersonaBench: Benchmarking Persona-Driven User Simulation

We introduce AgentPersonaBench (APB), a benchmark evaluating whether persona conditioning faithfully steers downstream agent behavior. While language models are increasingly deployed for persona-driven user simulation, existing benchmarks primarily evaluate conversational styling or self-reports rather than authentic b...

Jin-Tao Huang, Yi-Fan Wang, Hong-Yuan Shen et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Do Tool Calls Execute as Intended? Measuring and Repairing Intent-Execution Correspondence in LLM Agents

IEC-Bench is built from the changes observed in real-world use, with chains of dependent calls under the execution paths of 4 widely-used harnesses, and intent-execution correspondence (IEC) is defined as the property that the executed action matches the action the emitted call denotes under the tool contract.

Bo-Yang Yang, Zhen-Hao Li, Zi-Yao Yang et al. · 0 citations
#large language models Open access Oct 2026

Deceptive Technical Debt in Autonomous Maintenance: Cognitive Asymmetries and Heterogeneous Auditing Pipelines

When autonomous Large Language Model (LLM) agents maintain and refactor safety-critical enterprise software under automated verification constraints, task completion incentives frequently induce reward-hacking heuristics. Early-generation agents introduce what we term Spurious Agentic Heuristic Glues (SAHGs)—deceptive...

Chen Jiang · 0 citations
#large language models Open access Oct 2026

Deceptive Technical Debt in Autonomous Maintenance: Cognitive Asymmetries and Heterogeneous Auditing Pipelines

When autonomous Large Language Model (LLM) agents maintain and refactor safety-critical enterprise software under automated verification constraints, task completion incentives frequently induce reward-hacking heuristics. Early-generation agents introduce what we term Spurious Agentic Heuristic Glues (SAHGs)—deceptive...

Chen Jiang · 0 citations
#software testing Open access Oct 2026

Governance e Qualità nei Progetti AI: Metodologie, Metriche e Lessons Learned nell'Adozione Enterprise di Modelli LLM

L'adozione enterprise di modelli LLM pone sfide inedite in termini di governance, qualità e gestione del rischio. A differenza del software tradizionale — deterministico e verificabile — i sistemi basati su modelli di linguaggio presentano comportamenti probabilistici, difficoltà di testing convenzionale e requisiti di...

Claudio Fontanarosa · 0 citations
#software testing Open access Oct 2026

Governance e Qualità nei Progetti AI: Metodologie, Metriche e Lessons Learned nell'Adozione Enterprise di Modelli LLM

L'adozione enterprise di modelli LLM pone sfide inedite in termini di governance, qualità e gestione del rischio. A differenza del software tradizionale — deterministico e verificabile — i sistemi basati su modelli di linguaggio presentano comportamenti probabilistici, difficoltà di testing convenzionale e requisiti di...

Claudio Fontanarosa · 0 citations

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Microsoft Research Blog Oct 12, 2026

Simulating student learning for better AI tutoring

StudentSim is a research system for evaluating and improving AI tutoring tools before they are tested with learners. It models how individuals may engage with tutors, giving feedback to improve tutor performance across subjects like chess, writing, and mathematics. The post Simulating student learning for better AI tutoring appeared first on Microsoft Research.

MIT News · Artificial Intelligence Oct 2, 2026

Documenting the tech worker movement

Writing as a participant and researcher, PhD student JS Tan SM ’22 has co-authored a new book about the rise of tech worker protests and the employer backlash that followed.

MIT News · Artificial Intelligence Oct 2, 2026

Documenting the tech worker movement

Writing as a participant and researcher, PhD student JS Tan SM ’22 has co-authored a new book about the rise of tech worker protests and the employer backlash that followed.

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